The Art of Playing Rock Guitar

This book is part 2 of the other book the heavy guitar bible. I use these books for teaching purposes, because the students can understand it better than any other books out there

This is not a book that will necessarily teach you how to be a better guitar player. Instead, it's a total and complete guide to all of the deep, deep music theory that an advanced guitarist needs to know. There are secrets in here which literally may take a lifetime to comprehend and put into practice. If you want to know the "why" of music, this is the book for you. Diligent study will reward you with a true understanding of all of the what's and whys of playing guitar. This, combined with a good instructional manual, is all you really need. If I could only have one book on guitar theory, THIS would be the one, even with the hokey late 80's illustrations. Not really reccomended for beginners... wait until you have a couple of years under your belt, your technical playing skills are fairly solid, and you're starting to wonder about all of the why's behind what you're doing. Highly, Highly recommended.

This book is the best book I ever read on the guitar. It starts at the basics by explaining how the major triad is derived from overtones and subsequently explains the CAGED system and essential scales in blues and rock. Stuff that never made sense becomes clear when reading this book. Buy it if you want to understand what you're doing.I also recommend The guitar handbook by Ralph Denyer.

WOW! What an intense piece this is. You cannot just read this book. You must read it and then study it, to take full advantage of this work. I believe that is what the author intended - a knowledge-based textbook. However, Richard Daniels wrote "Blues Guitar - Inside and Out" which far surpasses anything on music of which I am aware. It (Blues Guitar) maintains the reader's interest in order to teach of the art. It too, is not a book to be just read. You read it, and then study it. Anyone interested in music, especially guitar, must read these books.

Richard Daniels book "The Art of Playing Rock Guitar" is by far the best guitar book I have studied from to date. I would highly recommend this book, especially to beginners. The book has adequate detail on all the topics discussed. I found that it takes a little while to get "into" the book (lengthy intro, etc.) but that these sections are necessary and once "in" its VERY informative and hard to put down. I would recommend this to someone who is a serious beginning guitar student! This book has helped me and will continue to as I finish it off. This book SHOULD be ranked up their with "The Guitar Handbook"!